ὄζος

See also: όζος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὔσδος (úsdos) — Aeolic

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *ózdos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ósdos (“branch, twig”). Cognate with Old Armenian ոստ (ost, “branch; knot (of tree)”), Old English ōst (“tree knot”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /óz.dos/ → /ˈo.zos/ → /ˈo.zos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /óz.dos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.zos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.zos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.zos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.zos/

Noun

ὄζος • (ózos) m (genitive ὄζου); second declension

1. bough, branch, twig
2. knot or eye on a tree
3. (figuratively) offshoot, scion

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὄζος; τοῦ ὄζου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὄζος ho ózos	τὼ ὄζω tṑ ózō	οἱ ὄζοι hoi ózoi
Genitive	τοῦ ὄζου toû ózou	τοῖν ὄζοιν toîn ózoin	τῶν ὄζων tôn ózōn
Dative	τῷ ὄζῳ tôi ózōi	τοῖν ὄζοιν toîn ózoin	τοῖς ὄζοις toîs ózois
Accusative	τὸν ὄζον tòn ózon	τὼ ὄζω tṑ ózō	τοὺς ὄζους toùs ózous
Vocative	ὄζε óze	ὄζω ózō	ὄζοι ózoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: όζος (ózos)

Further reading

• “ὄζος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὄζος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὄζος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὄζος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ὄζος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ὄζος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bough idem, page 90.
  • branch idem, page 93.